A rather interesting photo report about the work of one woman who made an old concrete platform similar to a new wooden terrace.
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A little more than a year ago we bought a house in the courtyard an old concrete patio, all in cracks, but great and strong. Husband said that it was not aesthetic that his beloved barbikyushnitsa was not a place on such a wretched patio, and that it is necessary to dissemble all this and build a new one! I objected and promised to do everything myself and save in a family at least $ 6,000. My man, connected with creativity, so I was terribly interested to realize this idea, namely to paint the concrete under the tree.
For a start, I cleared the cracks from the sprouted roots. That still work I will tell you. Pushed large pieces of seaw, small residues with a long needle and cleaned with a brush
I specifically made a photo show how much "good" in a crack size 2.5 cm
Zamazala gap, previously scored a drop of old paint after the builders who prepared the house for sale
Well, almost dried
Since the cracks were with a height drop, we decided to simply rush these differences. For what they took a special car. Loud infection, but with a built-in vacuum cleaner. So while the husband heard concrete, I began to create ... .. Yes, yes. Samples.
This tool will need this tool by changing the angle of inclination, the effect of a wooden structure is created. Costs about 10 dollars.
Since we need two kinds of paint (light and dark), I bought four dark samples and six light, brought them into the table and began to combine the colors, what would then choose what we like more.
Drew on the floor in the garage (it will still need to do it) six lanes with different light paints)
So the first sample
The second, well, and so on, but I liked it darker, it was accepted for production, so to speak.
I was played with textures, and what if it was tinting a polyurethane, and that if so, yes, then ... the hand turned into a shorter
Washed concrete with a brush with a dishwashing agent, then painted the stripes "under the parquet". I bought one tile in the store here and used it as a "pattern" by the way it turns out very quickly.
Then, in a very chaotic order, the painting ribbon was applied around "parquetin" and painted with a light tone. Then applied a layer of polyurethane. Specially put awning for the shade, so that concrete was not very hot.
Here is another perspective
Then dark paint using the most magic tool, in the end I will put the video as I draw the last tile.
Drew the "tree" immediately removed the painting tape. After the drying was covered with polyurethane
Every day coming from work I draw for 2-3 hours
More and more
When almost half was ready - I told myself: -We there are women to eat! I caught fire, here are right, come on, right now. No to think first. Therefore, the second half was made faster: I first painted the entire area with a light tone, covered with polyurethane, and then already drawn under the tree. Well, of course twice as fast! Here it is for painted plot
I do not know how you, but I really like
Here they are the penultimate 'Parketin. " Regarding the caps from the milk that you see: on each cover, I marked the arrow on each cover and when I painted the tile under the tree, I set a number of such a cover, pointing to the arrow on the tile, to know what kind of polyurethane.
A week later, a good rain was held and nothing was cleaned, ha ha ha. Joke. Before you start, I shut off a bunch of material on this topic and many noted that polyurethane is our all!
And as it should be finished photos before and after. The day I received a compliment from a person who did not know what we were talking about. The familiar came out on our patio, and then says: even I do not understand, it seems to be a tree, but some kind of solid.
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